Home is Where the Art Is Trivia Quiz

Answer: Galleria dell'Accademia

Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze plays home to this world-famous statue unveiled to the public in 1504 and placed in the Piazza della Signoria in the city of Florence. In the nineteenth century, it was moved to a permanent home indoors at the Galleria where it shares the gallery with other works by Michelangelo and others of the Renaissance era.

Originally, he was made to be placed atop a cathedral in his original square, but with the sculpture weighing in at six tons of solid marble, that wasn't quite doable.

Answer: The Hermitage

The Hermitage, found in St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of the oldest museums in the world, adjoining to the Winter Palace founded by Catherine the Great in the sixteenth century. While much of the art found there is not on permanent display, the Fauvist work 'Dance' by Matisse is one of many that does act as a draw due to its popularity.

Although 'Dance' is in The Hermitage, a preliminary version of the painting (referred to as 'Dance (I)') can also be found on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York City.

Answer: Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum, the Dutch National Museum, is home to countless works of priceless art from painters from the Netherlands and beyond; amongst its collections are works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya, and others. Known better as 'The Night Watch', the painting in question is actually called 'Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq'. You can imagine why the title was shortened.

It is commonly found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, but also has a home in the collections of the Amsterdam Museum.

Answer: Museum of Modern Art, NY

'The Starry Night', perhaps Vincent Van Gogh's most famous work, was painted by the artist while he resided in an asylum, specifically Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France (amongst other works). It moved from Europe to a permanent home in New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in the 1940s where it shares the walls with Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory', Paul Cézanne's 'Still Life With Apples', and Jackson Pollock's 'Number 1A, 1948' amongst others.

Answer: Musée d'Orsay

One of the many art facilities in France, La Musée d'Orsay sits on the Seine in the middle of Paris and it houses numerous paintings from French artists over the centuries including more than seven dozen original Monets, almost four dozen by Pissarro, over eighty paintings by Renoir, Van Gogh's 'Self-Portrait', and Jean-François Millet's 'The Gleaners'. Though painted by an American artist, the realist painting (lesser known by its title, 'Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1') makes its home in the museum as well.

Answer: The Louvre

One of the most popular paintings of all time, the 'Mona Lisa' is a major draw for French tourists and can be found in a room in The Louvre in the middle of Paris, France. The world's largest museum, The Louvre is housed in a fortress originally built nearly a millennium ago; it became a gallery during the French Revolution.

It has since housed much more than just paintings, but names in its art collection have included Leonardo Da Vinci, Jacques Louis-David, and Eugène Delacroix. It's also home to the original Venus de Milo marble sculpture.

Answer: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

A surreal painting depicting Spanish war, 'Guernica' is one of Picasso's largest works. Created in his home, the painting has since moved around the world including to the World's Fair in Paris before settling in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain.

While Picasso's works are now housed in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Lucerne, and Cologne, over one hundred of his works, which span most of his life in art, can be found in Madrid alongside paintings by Juan Gris and other cubists.

Answer: The Louvre

A famous Romantic piece, Delacroix's 'Liberty Leading the People' later became the cover art for Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" album, informing their musical stylings through their third album. If you don't know it from that, it is, nonetheless, a classic work of art from the French Revolution.

Originally displayed in Luxembourg, the painting has also appeared overseas several times before joining a permanent collection in the Louvre alongside Delacroix's own 'The Death of Sardanapalus', 'The Barque of Dante', 'Women of Algiers', and 'The Massacre at Chios'.

Answer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ('The Met')

While Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's most famous painting, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', is hung on a wall in Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, the similarly-beautiful 17th century piece 'Portrait of a Young Woman' is in The Met (or the Metropolitan Museum of Art), the largest art museum in the United States.

The facilities there are also home to works by Seurat, Monet, Degas, Gauguin, and Van Gogh, to name a few famous ones.

Answer: Museum of Modern Art, NY

This image, an embodiment of twentieth century pop art, is one of a number from Warhol's collection to appear at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) alongside numerous famous works by Picasso, Magritte, Pollack, and Matisse. While the basic soup cans may be Warhol's most popular, images he created of 'Green Coca-Cola Bottles' can be found in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, his 'Marilyn Diptych' is at the Tate in London, and his 'Eight Elvises', one of the most valuable paintings ever sold in auction, stayed in a private collection.